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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Newts vs. RRDtool vs. Sadas Engine vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

opennms.github.io/newts

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sadasengine.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

OpenNMS Group

Tobias Oetiker

SADAS s.r.l.

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2014

1999

2006

2015

Current release

1.8.0, 2022

8.0

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single collection possible

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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